Klugmann became the official historian of the British Communist Party, while Simon was later a left-wing Labour peer. James Klugmann and Roger Simon both went with Maclean to Cambridge University and joined the Communist Party at around the same time. It had already produced Tom Wintringham (1898–1949), a Marxist military historian, journalist, author and one of the founders of the Communist party of Great Britain and editor of various party journals and newspapers. Gresham's was then looked on as both liberal and progressive. At Gresham's, some of his contemporaries were Jack Simon (later Baron Simon, a Law Lord), James Klugmann (1912–1977), Roger Simon (1913–2002), Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) and the scientist and Nobel laureate Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. At the age of 13, he was sent to Gresham's School in Norfolk, where he remained from 1926 until 1931, when he was 18. Maclean's education began as a boarder at St Ronan's School, Worthing. In 1931 his father entered the Coalition Cabinet as President of the Board of Education. He grew up in a very political household, in which world affairs were constantly discussed. Maclean's parents had houses in London (later in Buckinghamshire) as well as in the Scottish Borders, where his father represented Peebles and Southern Midlothian, but the family lived mostly in and around London. As the Labour Party had no leader and Sinn Féin did not attend, he became titular Leader of the Opposition.
Asquith in the Liberal Party in the House of Commons. His father was chosen as chairman of the rump of the 23 independent MPs who backed H.
Left–right: Donald Maclean Ian Lockarbie Maclean Gwendolen Margaret Devitt, Andrew Ewen Maclean in 1920īorn in Marylebone, London, Donald Duart Maclean was the son of Sir Donald Maclean and Gwendolen Margaret Devitt. In Moscow, he worked as a specialist on British policy and on relations between the Soviet Union and NATO. The Soviets helped Maclean to defect to Moscow in 1951. He was subsequently posted to Egypt, and then was appointed head of the American Department in the Foreign Office. He then served in London, and was posted to Washington, D.C., from 1944 to 1948, achieving promotion to First Secretary. He entered the United Kingdom's civil service and, in 1938, was made Third Secretary at the Paris embassy. Donald Duart Maclean ( / m ə ˈ k l eɪ n/ – 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat who conveyed government secrets to the Soviet Union.Īs an undergraduate Maclean openly proclaimed his left-wing views, and was surreptitiously recruited into the Soviet intelligence service, then known as the NKVD.
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